Means for securing wire lathing to girders



(No Model.)

D. F. WOODS. MEAN$ FOR SECURING WIRE LATHING- T0 GIRDERS.

No. 306,705. Patented Oct. 14, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFF CE.

D AVID F. \VOODS, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MEANS FOR SECURING WIRE LATHING TO GIRDERS.

LJPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,705, dated October 14, 1884:.

Application filed March 3, 1884. (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID F. Woons, of Clinton, in the county of NVorcesterand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for 'Securing Wire Lathing to Girders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a section through the floor of a building without the plastering, showing the reticulated metal lathing secured to T-shaped girders. Fig. 2 is a bottom view in detail. Fig. 3 is an end view of the device in section. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of one of the tiestraps.

This invention has especial relation to means for securely binding plaster for ceilings, where it is desired to rigidly secure the mortar without the necessity of using much hair. The wooden laths have been found objectionable, because they are not fire-proof; hence I have improved the ceilings of apartments by a novel mode of securing the wire lathing to the girders.

My invention and improvements consistin a new way of securing the wire lathing to the girders, as will appear from the following deseription,wl1en taken in connection with the annexed drawings. I

A A designate two flooring-girders, which may be made of the usual T-shaped iron, (or they may be made of any other material.) At suitable points I cut kerfs a a into the lower edges of these girders, which are adapted to receive the ends of flat metal binding devices B, hereinafter again referred to.

(J designates the wire lathing, which is the substitute for the well-known laths, and which, being made of metal and suitably plastered, is practically fire-proof.

For the purpose of preventing sagging of the ceiling when made of the fire-proof lathing, I use the metal ties or binding devices 13, above referred to. These ties are made of strap metal, and they have their ends I) b bent at such angles that they will enter the kerfs a a by spreading by givingthem a blow from beneath, which will lock them to the girders. These ties are driven into the girders between the longitudinal wires of the meshes, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, for the purpose of firmly retaining the tic-pieces of the inner m'eshwork.

L L represent metal straps, which are employed at sufiicient distances to keep the wirecloth from sagging. These strips may be secured by means of the ties l3 B, as shown in Fig. 5.

Now, it will be observed from the foregoing description that I have a device for fastening wire-cloth to girders which will positively hold the cloth and allow both longitudinal and lateral strain without sagging.

Having described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. The combination of a reticulated wirelat-hing with girders, which are slotted, and fiat metal binding devices orties, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with flooringgirders which are kerfed obliquely, as described, of a wire-netting and the flat metal binding de- DAVID F. IVOODS.

\Vitnesses:

LUCIUS FIELD, DAVID DIAS. 

